skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy to see you're opensourcing. Are you planning to do the same with Flop and Optimize?
Crowdfunding could unlock a new way to fund life sciences
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How about doing an implementation of smoothlife in conway's life? Might run a bit slow.
John Key is absolutely nowhere close to a straight talking PM
I totally agree! Floods are certainly on top of the list. You can expect them one of these days!
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You can add you own components at the bottom of your dashboard. The process is currently still a bit tedious, but we will have a massively easier flow earlier next week. For this we will integrate with Octopart and have a large number of standard footprints.
9x10^28 carats. That's a pretty big ring.
>It was a man who thought big, who had "one overriding idea": Tesla.

>It's not about "one overriding idea",

Make up your mind.
Yes, they have. There is nothing unique about it.

But that's the case with most patent grants these days and usually is no bar to prosecution.
Right - can you still build a UTM in this?
After reading 95% of the books outlined in the "Personal MBA Reading List," I'd say this post is about 50% true. The first point about the knowledge you learn is wrong; an MBA curriculum has many more useful topics that an entrepreneur can use.

Learning how to develop a business plan, forecast financials, develop consistent methodologies for leading, etc., are all covered under an MBA curriculum (or, they were covered in depth in all the books I read), and all are valuable when it comes to running a company.

Starting a company up? Maybe not, but having a solid foundation to rely on once the revenue starts coming in is absolutely included in an MBA program.

That said, I mentioned the Personal MBA Reading List above; I made it a goal to read the entire list within 18 months and got pretty close. I started a company first, and went on my reading journey second, but if nothing else, the material helped validate what I was doing, and filled in a lot of gaps where I hadn't learned anything experientially.
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Im a big fan of http://gaug.es which is now owned by github
Really? Do we really have to make up stuff now in excuse? The guy runs an Apple blog.
Well, this is kind of off-topic for this thread. But anyways, the text you quoted actually says: "No downloads or installation required. 100% safe and secure!" That means, you are not vulnerable to any virus or trojans, as you are not downloading and running some software to use our service.
If i was these guys id keep this service lowkey until traction is gained. Because Jack Ma and co can impliment this feature and its over for them.Matter of fact do not be suprise to see it in the come months on Alibaba
I use apps connected to pay SaaS services (Concur, SalesForce) -- the apps are free with no IAP, but my company pays a lot for them. Yammer has pay services and a free iOS app with no IAP. I think if you look for them, you will see tons of apps like this that are the front-end to a SaaS service (not content) -- why is yours any different?
Dear HD Trade Services: Your javascript email submit handler told me my email was invalid. I hacked the source to accept my email anyway and it went through fine. Please fix that.
Thats fixed now. Thanks for the notice!
Having to hack up all your code to perform appropriately in the context of a message-passing system is not simpler than a monolithic kernel. That's the rub.

If performance were not a concern, message-passing could be simpler.
Microsoft move hints at the death of Windows service packs
Are we supposed to agree that only the worst can be heartbreaking?
Haven't watched this one yet, but Jonathan has done some really nice interviews - few of my favorites

Quitting high paying jobs to do something they wanted (while Helene liked being a lawyer, AJ wasn't enthusiastic about his job)

http://www.goodlifeproject.com/after-22-years-she-left-the-l...

http://www.goodlifeproject.com/good-life-project-melissa-a-j...

Merging passion and career
http://www.goodlifeproject.com/would-you-risk-death-to-do-wh...
I think Free to Play, while a nice idea, is somewhat misled. The end goal of a project like this has to be breaking even or making a profit, and if the free version is set up to be good enough to play long-term you're not going to convert as many to sales.

It used to be that these "free versions" were billed as demos, with the implication that you try it out for 30 days, a chapter of the story, or whatever the developer chose to limit. And after you get through that, you buy the game to keep playing. Giving away 90% of the product and hoping people want the extra 10% enough to pay $15 for it doesn't seem sustainable.

I especially hate this in competitive multiplayer games (looking at you, Tribes: Ascend), where you're absolutely at a disadvantage if you haven't bought stuff or invested a huge amount of time. I'd rather have the type of demo we used to get in games like Unreal Tournament, where you have the complete gameplay experience but only have one or two maps to play on.
So, you're more interested in picking petty nits in phrasing than grasping the overall point. It was Linus's phrase, and he was wrong to phrase what he was actually talking about that way (no one ever uses "one overriding idea" in every sphere whatsoever).
kissmetrics.com is solid.
Your comment and the reply to it are good if we're talking spell checker software for stuff people type.

What I have to deal with as well are recognition errors. From trivial replacements (I/l/1,C/G,i/j,P/R etc.) to 'engine said that there's some character here according to the character segmentation results, but it has no damn clue what character it could be' that's a different look at the same problem.

Also, for typed content I see quite a lot of shortcuts. SwiftKey for Android, nice as it is, seems to be too braindead to correct words that _start_ with the wrong character (if I type vharacter, with just one single slip at the start, it fails miserably and looks baaad imho). Assumptions like 'just check adjacent characters on the keyboard (special points for assuming a keyboard layout)' or 'ah, the user is certainly starting the jnput correctly and just might misspress a letter in the middle of a word' are nice models to make the developer's life easier, but they don't work for a good number of cases as well..
I also cannot set up a lemonade stand inside of a Walmart.
I'll be "that guy".

You should change your Github OAuth permissions. I'm never giving you access to private repos - and would only give you access to public repos if you were creating a repo for me to do the Code Garage stuff (it isn't clear if you do that or not).

I'm happy to auth with Github if you just request my public profile.
That's too bad. Storing encrypted volumes on Dropbox is a PITA. I'd readily switch from paying $0 to Dropbox to paying $20 to you if I could stop doing that.
Also works on Safari, on Firefox there are just some minor glitches. Just didn't have the time yet for thorough cross browser testing and tuning
How important is positive feedback in code reviews?
Nice job it looks really good.
I strongly contemplated pursuing an MBA as well and was largely put off due to most of the reasons you debate. I'm not sure the start-up experience can be described numerically or other ways MBA's are; I think the journey of a start-up warrants the highest commitment, focus, and openness/ability to learn, but is ultimately more valuable than any traditional course.
Coming up next: "Hey Entrepreneur - Please Get an MBA"
I don’t really understand what you want to say. Do you honestly believe that he didn’t make the magazine multi-platform out of spite? That’s just ridiculous.
Well, generations don't have to be rendered in realtime, so you could just grab some high cpu instances on AWS and compute really large sizes. For example, this guy made a turing machine, and it's pretty huge: http://rendell-attic.org/gol/tm.htm

And that was in 2000. I'm sure we could do extremely large boards now.
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Implement a “useless” algorithm like a bloom filter or a skip list...

This a hundred times! The majority of us are probably working on web-related stuff that usually does not need a lot of CompSci on a daily basis.
Picking out an fancy algorithm or a niche data structure and implementing it in a language you're just dabbling with can be a great way to learn a bunch of new stuff in a couple of hours. Set two hours to do this once a week and you'll be amazed at how fast you end up understanding new concepts.
Their generation got lost in space, and left behind the rest of us in the ashes of their world. We have to deal with the aging infrastructure, horrid basic education system, a re-broken economy, and now sky-high debt. And that generation is forcing us to pay them for aging, then pay for our own old age as the system will be broken by then.
> I am genuinely curious how anything technically superior ever gets a chance in this concocted world of yours.

If it actually works, sure. Unfortunately, due to uncontrolled hipsterism most technologies touted as "technically superior" don't actually work. It's very easy to throw up a demo or a benchmark. It's very easy to write a paper that shows how amazing what you wrote happens to be. Integrating something into a production stack that doesn't cause more problems than it solves is really hard. And it very rarely happens.

So yeah, while you're still at the office at midnight trying to track down what exactly in your stack exploded ... I'm sleeping ... because I decided to go with something that's proven, rather than the latest and greatest.

> we should build the OS in PHP

Bonus points for trolling.
I've never experimented with go, until now. I just ran all of the examples (found the mt=>fmt typo which I believe has been fixed). I think this is a great way to start, thank you for building it.

I have a few suggestions.

Make the code easily copyable. Under Chrome, at any rate, if you select the code you can't help but select your comments to the left of the code. I think that people running through the examples should type everything in line by line, but some people will prefer to copy and paste.

Also, it would be great to have some "where to go from here" links. I've run the examples, now I want to write some useful code. Where should I go next?
There is nothing astronaut-ty or theoretical about microkernels. For eg, QNX is a fairly successful, practical microkernel, its what your BlackBerry runs on. If anything, microkernels are one of the most practical ways to approach OS design. You strip the kernel to its bare minimum and do everything else in usermode via IPC. It so turns out in practice that the performance costs of IPC is much more than making a direct syscall in a monolithic kernel, but that is just today's state of the art. As IPC performance improves & monolithic kernel KLOCs explode, you will see microkernels making a strong comeback, especially on mobile. Wait and see.
I agree. I think the biggest friction point for magazines on the web is that consumers are very wary of paying a recurring subscription for something as nebulous as "access". Just needing to remember a login id/password for a payed service kills the customer experience. So containerizing content in a way that consumers retain the right to old content, centralizing the billing, and distributing it in the Newsstand (as opposed to relying on already over-used channels like e-mail alerts) seems to attack many of the web's biggest shortcomings to me.
I like it, I agree with the GH comment, I used twitter,
your tutorial is great, though a bit long, didn't wait till the end. I would add a "skip the basics" option for people who already know adding numbers. but besides that looks great, but how are you different from all the others? (See partial list here http://eranmedan.com/post/22359967135/codeschools)
But you can setup a lemonade stand elsewhere and sell to people who buy at Walmart.
Is it Turing complete?
surely, someone has implemented a css3 rendering engine in redstone by now?
So you're pro-doxxing, then, right? Addresses and phone numbers are public record anyway, right? Why should I care if a submitter "feels bad" about his personal info leaking onto the net?
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This is a huge problem for me. My marketplace was designed to take commissions out of each sale so our application fee is $0. I have to charge the customers who buy the products the full amount, and then a percentage of the sale is disbursed to the seller and our site (the application).

If there are multiple parties involved in referring the sale, I will be charged not one but a multiple of the Stripe fees whenever money is disbursed to appropriate parties involved in one single sale.

Furthermore, because I have to process returns I will not be able to send the payment directly to the seller immediately. The payment would be retained in my account after a period of time before I could transfer it to the sellers.
I'm glad to see someone getting the point, which is that we as scientists strive for simplified, unified explanations and systems, and that's a good thing.

Linux is nice and practical, but try working with it as a systems programmer sometime. It's full of hacks and arbitrary complexity and all manner of nonsense that persists year after year.
you find you get a consistent experience between running code on the emulator and on a device?

Have you tried running your code on any of the OEM releases like HTC sense, Samsung TouchWiz or Moto Blur?
I had trouble getting past his claim that an MBA costs $100,000 per year. A quick search reveals that for HBS, tuition is $53,000 per year. Maybe he means the total cost of the degree is $100,000?
I don't know if the goals of StartupChile have changed, but the original goal of the program was to build a network in the global startup/venture community and connect Chile to the rest of the world, which I think they've done very well so far.
If you could, I imagine that the hard part would be proving it correct.
Flop is definitely on the list (with about 10 other libraries), but I'm not sure about our optimization code. We plan to start a discussion of what we should prioritize soon, so stay tuned.
His remarks are foolish, yes. If you want to construe that as he is foolish, that's your own personal leap.
Is Apple responsible for everyone's failures? They have little to do with this. In game upgrades is a stupid way at attempting to make money. Of all the games I've gotten for free, I've never paid in any of them. In fact, I paid in a few that I paid for the game as well.
Well, that just stinks (I shall escort myself back to reddit)
Title is pretty linkbait: Apple didn't mess up in any way.

But article is still interesting. Summary:

Free to play game. Millions of dollars in free advertising from Apple. Over half a million "sales" (downloads). But the idiots only had a total of $4 maximum of in-app purchases in the game. So they made it impossible for their best fans to pay them much, while also not taking any money at all from the masses. So they didn't get paid much by anyone.
Ask HN: Can fans legally support teams for bragging rights+Cash? SportsChimp.com
In the social and sports gaming space;

Companies like Zynga are at one end, simple, casual and social gaming. On the other end are sports bookies like Bet365, complex odds based cash betting.

We believe there is an interesting realm in the middle. Something that allows you to socially support your favourite teams without having to 'bet' on them and be rewarded for it.

SportsChimp: (http://www.sportschimp.com))

- You never use your own cash to buy in. We are F2P, not a sports bookie.
- We are social, so you compete with your friends.
- You can cash out, but you can never put a variable wager on an independent event i.e. bet
- You can recharge your account by inviting more friends (which we cover) or from sponsors.

Let us know what you think.

Again, this is for the purpose of starting a conversation around a space that is well … grey :/

For those interested in the legality and background around online sports gaming and betting:

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What a unique and original feature
Thank you, mind blown! Downloaded "Golly" (http://golly.sourceforge.net/) and ran HashLife/metapixel.

Life simulating life, and it runs in real time.
Well, thats another thing we are exploring. If a third party developer makes an App "ZapDrive Browser" using our API and does not link to the website, that should be ok. Because, technically, they can not offer IAP, since they can't do it in first place. Its like developers using Dropbox API in their Apps, as long as they don't point to Dropbox, they are approved.
Microsoft Research prove Feit-Thompson Theorem in Coq after 6 years
When is the Government going to put an end to these patent-gathering entities?
Flagged for the incredibly misleading title.
If you have an iOS developer account you can view the What's New document at https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/General...
I agree. While I really like the aesthetic behind Metro's minimalism, I'm not convinced the usability is there.
Yes, total cost. Appologies, I'll fix that (typo)

http://poetsandquants.com/2011/01/08/how-much-does-a-top-mba...
This is an industry that has plenty of room to grow, so I appreciate their work.

Their software doesn't really look like a "competitor" to Alibaba though. It looks more like something you'd use in tandem with the Alibaba marketplace to better keep an eye on your supplier.
It looks like cells under the microscope. Very interesting stuff.
Quick Go question. I haven't done much go coding at all, but play around with the language. I've been reading a lot about it (thanks to HN). So I was now looking at the Slices section and noticed a slice being initalize as:

t := []int{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}

What makes that a slice and not an array?

EDIT: Ok, found that answer on google go's blog. Apparently leaving out the length makes it one.
It's worth sending that feedback to Marco. He has said in Build and Analyze that the iOS 5 version is written (just disabled currently) and he is curious whether he should release support for it in a version rev or if he can abandon it.
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Title suggestion "Outwitters Outwits One Man Left".
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Note that I said it was a sliding performance target. That is, I agree that defining it as any particular architecture or absolute performance is pointless. It's a designation relative to what is currently possible.
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Maybe so they don't have to spend time getting it working in IE6-8?
"makes software that helps $BUSINESS_OWNERS mint more money from their $BUSINESS_ASSETS"

Pretty much every B2B software can be described in the same sentence - what else would landlords do with their properties?
Good point re: the commitment. I think it also requires an acceptance that failure will likely come along way and that one must keep trying to succeed.

Dave McClure has a great presentation about not doing a startup because you will fail: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/dave-mcclure-startup-advice/

I wonder if any amount of proper education can change the fact that we'll all probably have to fail a couple of times before creating something which really takes off.
And reliability.

S3 is specced as being very reliable.
If you're on a Mac I guess you could hack it rather quickly in Quartz Composer using this as a starting point.
http://quartzcomposer.com/compositions/135-conway-s-game-of-...
Apple's US Injunction on Samsung Galaxy Nexus Lifted
Hey fellow Phoenician! Most of the startup stuff I've seen out here has gone through Gangplank (http://www.gangplankhq.com/) but this Quora thread may have more information for you: http://www.quora.com/Mircea-Goia/Posts/Startup-scene-in-Phoe...
Patented? Good! Now nobody will implement it.

Seriously, I can't see anyone in the Maker crowd endorsing this plan, which pretty much kills it.
Actually proving irreparable damage should be the status quo before any such injunctions happen. I feel that these injunctions are granted far too easily. Isn't the injunction supposed to happen only if they cause "irreparable" damage to the other party if they keep being sold?

Plus, there needs to be made a clear distinction between that flavor of "irreparable damage" and "competition". Say that one company does indeed infringe on another's patent, but it's a pretty non-important patent (like that bounce-effect one). And say that the device is very popular because it's a great overall device for many other reasons other than that small piece of technology. And say that this device is so popular that it does indeed create lower sales for the other device.

Could the other company prove "irreparable damage" and ban the product from the market, when 99.99% of the reason it lost sales was because of competition, and that it was a better device (or had better marketing) ? Such a device should never be banned from the market based on a trivial patent, even if the patent is "valid".
If you can't make your business work on $x * 70%, you can't make your business work.

Every SaaS faces the same issue you have. And they (mostly) still offer IAP. That's because you might lose the 30% on the first sale, but usually renewals happen out of band.
This looks great guys! I especially like the tutorial flow.

Some criticism:
You should show JS syntax errors instead just showing a generic error message. I understand you don't want to scare newbies away with compiler errors, but your solution just makes debugging more difficult.

You should show syntax errors, but translate the default JS error messages into something friendlier. Codecademy does this for their intro lessons.
I knew it was only a matter of time before someone did exactly this.
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Hmmm...this post would hold more validity if it were written by someone who got an MBA. How can you comment on the value of the education and its pertinence to a startup, if you haven't gone through it and learned?
Sweet. Always do this so infrequently I have to go google the commands each time for the command line.
Love this. So true. Thinking of writing it.
What's major?

I'm pretty sure there's several (if not decades) of man years of work that has gone into the MS Word spell checker.
The Maker crowd won't be the ones making mass-market versions of these devices though.
> Back on point, In grad school, we read the Tenenbaum-
Torvalds debates in OS class to get an idea of the
current state of research.

> ... tons of issues to be solved, and whoever took a stab at them would push the state of the art forward. That is the point => to find a superior technical solution, not minimizing friction among humans.

You are talking from the perspective of computer science research, whereas he is talking about software engineering in practice. There's a difference there, imho.
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This is file sharing all over again.
I've never wanted an MBA, but I do feel like there's also not any really good provider of the kind of useful practical information that you feel like you need to know in order to start a business, whether it has to do with business licenses or business plans or insurance or anything else related to starting a company.
The UI is cool :)
That being said, it's not as cool as browserid/persona (where you click one button, and done, can't get much wrong here)
Mind blown pretty much describes what I felt like when I first came upon it.

After spending a good bit of time optimizing 'life' having your ass handed to you by a large number of orders of magnitude courtesy of mr. Norvig is a good lesson in humility.